Web Design
Squish blog layout
A minimalist blog section for the Squish Framer template, featuring a spacious grid, high-contrast imagery, and refined typographic hierarchy for a premium reading experience.
About
The blog section of Squish — a layout that has to do several things simultaneously: present multiple posts without crowding, give each image room to land, let the typography carry the post before anyone clicks, and hold together whether there are two articles or twenty.
The answer is a spacious grid with high-contrast imagery and a clear type hierarchy — headline, category, date, reading time, each in a different weight and size but pulling from the same restrained system. Nothing competes. Everything points toward the post.
What I Find Inspiring About This
Blog layouts fail in predictable ways. Too many posts crammed in, the grid collapses under variety. Type set too small, the headlines lose authority. Images cropped inconsistently, the rhythm breaks. The Squish blog layout solves all three by committing hard to spacing and hierarchy and not trying to do more than the grid can hold.
The high-contrast imagery is an editorial choice as much as an aesthetic one. Strong images at consistent aspect ratios mean the grid stays stable no matter what gets published. The layout doesn't trust that every post will come with a perfect hero image — it's built to make good images great and acceptable images work.
What the typographic hierarchy does well is distinguish levels of information without visual noise. You read the headline, you read the category, you read the date — in that order, without choosing to. That's the mark of hierarchy that's been thought through rather than assembled. A reader can scan six posts and know exactly what's there before committing to any of them.
Blog layouts are often the last thing designed on a template and the first thing a buyer actually uses. Getting this right matters more than it might seem.
